If you've seen the movie Hocus Pocus, you'll know the witches can't set foot on the hallowed ground of the local Salem cemetery. The Old Burial Hill sign is huge in the movie. We made a scaled down version to attach to a purchased garden arbor.
We were hoping to be able to download an accurate depiction from an online source, but we couldn't find anything with good enough resolution to work with. Instead, we found a closely matching font at dafont.com: Wizards Magic.
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We typed the words we wanted into LightBurn and cut the letters out of 3mm thick plywood.
The original plan was to have the letters on beams, like they are in the movie, but we decided that this option wasn't stable enough. Our letters weren't made of metal, like on the real sign.
Instead, we cut out a piece of wood to match the arc of the garden arbor. We just laid the arbor down on the plywood and traced it before cutting it out with a jigsaw.
We spray painted the letters gold and painted the arched wood black on both sides. We then drilled holes at the top of the sign for attaching it to the arbor.
When gluing the letters to the wood, we opted for the good super glue. This stuff is great. The cheap super glue tubes often clog up or get glue all over your fingers. This Loctite super glue doesn't clog and doesn't come out too fast. Get the good glue!
The final step was using zip ties to attach the sign to the arbor using the previously drilled holes. Make sure your arbor is sturdy, so your cemetery sign doesn't fall over on any trick-or-treaters.
We laser cut letters and shapes for our own and customers' signs all the time. It was fun using the Wizards Magic font. Happy haunting!
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